9. Dune (1984)
The early eighties were the glory years of science fiction, Bladerunner, Star Wars, Star Trek the Movie, Altered States and Tron to name a few. Nobody at the time would have put David Lynch and Sci-Fi together after critical success of The Elephant Man but either it was the artistic challenge or a truckload of money that Dino De Laurentiis and Universal dumped on his driveway he opted out of directing Return of the Jedi and instead chose to helm Frank Herbert's epic science fiction novel. Dune starred Sting, Patrick Stewart and soon-to-be Lynch favourite, Kyle Maclachlan. Not his greatest moment by far, Lynch had difficulties 'adjusting' to the creative control the studio had with the final cut and seems obvious even in the trailer; which features that 'voice from every 80's trailer'. While some images still maintained the WTF of classic Lynch, this mess would lead him away from the big budget movie trajectory he was on back into territory more to his liking; low budget films with (mostly) complete creative control that would grant him the real bedrock of having his name become synonymous with WTF.